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"...did you wear a suit" I guess it might depend on the industry, but at most interviews I have done, the expectation has been to just wear jeans and whatever. I usually go with jeans and a polo shirt for safety.
It may seem like you were dressed OK, but do you really know? Does anybody ever say "we can't hire that guy, he dressed up?"
Am I doing something wrong or is this website horribly non-functional, after 20ish seconds it just goes blank and tries to start loading a new page, if you try and download the slides it just pops up a blank modal.
I encountered the same thing and pasted in the following in the console to disable all timers(1): // Set a fake timeout to get the highest timeout id var highestTimeoutId = setTimeout(";"); for (var i = 0 ; i (1) Taken from: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3847121/how-can-i-disable...
I just hit ESC a bunch of times as the page was loading and it seemed to stop the offending code from getting a chance to execute.
"...did you wear a suit" I guess it might depend on the industry, but at most interviews I have done, the expectation has been to just wear jeans and whatever. I usually go with jeans and a polo shirt for safety.
Which city are you in? I wonder if it's a cultural difference. In the UK, I'd always recommend dressing smart.
I actually dressed up once for an interview with Peter Molyneux and the first thing he said before even shaking hands was "oh, you dressed up" with a very confused face.
Am I doing something wrong or is this website horribly non-functional, after 20ish seconds it just goes blank and tries to start loading a new page, if you try and download the slides it just pops up a blank modal.
With AdBlock it's working perfectly.
I also saw requests to LinkedIn going from SlideShare, I wonder why.. https://twitter.com/NicolaeNMV/status/527092523987402752
"Your CV should be about three pages" - I had always been told, keep your CV to two pages, so you can print it on one sheet of paper (both sides). I like it as it ties back into the main message of these slides: "reading CVs is a chore" so keeping it condensed helps me to focus with showing only the most valuable information.
I have been told that it should be one page unless you have had a really long career. Was this bad/outdated advice?
I wrote this. It's a tiny bit Perl/UK-centric, but I think you could easily apply it to other markets. Happy to answer any questions...
Why are you perpetuating the myth that frequent switching of jobs is somehow detrimental to your career? Maybe that's true for corporate megacorp, but in the startup world I feel it's par for the course. At least all the best engineers I've worked with never stuck around long.
If you had a business, would you want to hire someone who is probably going to jump to another job in a few months?
One thing I have been noticing lately with HR drones, is that unless you have stated specifically that you worked in technology X on a project at work, it doesn't matter how many off work projects you might have done in the said technology.
Even if there are other people using the said projects.
They just go top to bottom looking for keywords.
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It may seem like you were dressed OK, but do you really know? Does anybody ever say "we can't hire that guy, he dressed up?"
They wouldn't say that, they'd say 'I'm not sure if this person is a good cultural fit for our company'.
If I were interviewing in finance, I would definitely wear a suit. If I were interviewing at a startup or a digital agency, or equivalent, I would wear smart trousers (maybe smart jeans) and a shirt. That's playing it safe. Sometimes I interview people who are wearing jeans and a t-shirt and generally look pretty scruffy - I know that they know that that is probably the attire most of their potential future colleagues will be wearing, but it certainly doesn't impress me much. But maybe I'm just old-fashioned.
I thought there was a lot of good advice in those slides, incidentally.
I wrote this. It's a tiny bit Perl/UK-centric, but I think you could easily apply it to other markets. Happy to answer any questions...
Why are you perpetuating the myth that frequent switching of jobs is somehow detrimental to your career? Maybe that's true for corporate megacorp, but in the startup world I feel it's par for the course. At least all the best engineers I've worked with never stuck around long.
However, even if HR doesn't like it, if you do get an interview, then you can tell them a happy story to explain what happened. It helps if you can convince them that this time you'll stick around, provided the necessary conditions are met. Then ask several questions to clarify the points that are important to you.
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They wouldn't say that, they'd say 'I'm not sure if this person is a good cultural fit for our company'.
I really don't think so. If you went to a first interview in a suit and everyone were dressed extremely casually (flip-flop casually) and then you dressed the same for a second interview, definitely questions might be asked. But on the whole in the UK I would say it's pretty common to dress smartly for a first interview unless you have specific information (eg. from a recruiter or hiring manager) that you should not…